An apartment (in American English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment house (in American English), block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British E...Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment

A·part'ment noun [ French appartement ; confer Italian appartamento , from appartare to separate, set apart; all from Latin ad + pars , partis , part. See Apart .] 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by parti...Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/100

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